| |
The School of Knowledge Science at JAIST is the first graduate
school of its kind that was established in Hokuriku, Japan in 1998.
The school took up the main responsibility to inquiry the issue
on knowledge creation through a combination of master's and doctoral
program, that together require for a nominal term of five years.
It is the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST)
through the School of Knowledge Science that sponsors this symposium.
With its rather idiosyncratic positioning, it is interesting to
know what was the rational behind the establishment of the School
of Knowledge Science. Looking back to the time within which the
School was established, we found that the rational was very much
related with the Japan national policy in socializing advanced knowledge
in 1990's.
For this symposium, we have been deliberating a set of subjects
extracted from the science and technology policy of Japan to serve
as background for the creation of knowledge society. The main viewpoints
are as follows.
- The COE Program in JAIST
- Science and Technology Policy
- Many factors of knowledge society
(research talented people, knowledge industry, MOT, etc.)
More detailed information for the COE program can be found on
this link.
It is our intention that by offering the earlier viewpoints, we,
altogether through this symposium, will be able to develop better
arguments from broader perspectives, including the social science
for the creation of knowledge society.
|